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        <div class="section"><h2>Tomcat Maven Plugin</h2>
<div class="section"><h3>Concept</h3>
<p>The purpose of this plugin is to provide Java Web Developers with a tool to easily deploy their changes to a locally installed Tomcat. At the moment the main benefits of such a plugin are that you can:</p>
<ul><li>change a web resource (html, css, js, etc -- specified by a <i>resources</i> section) without having to build the entire project and then manually copy files around</li>
<li>build your module as usual and then have the produced jars copied to Tomcat's webapps/$<a name="myWebapp">myWebapp</a>/WEB-INF/lib and have Tomcat restarted for you.</li>
<li>build your module as usual and then have the produced war copied to Tomcat's webapps</li>
<li>start/stop/restart your Tomcat</li>
<li>clean Tomcat work, logs, temp, webapps</li>
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<p>At present there is a similar plugin developed and hosted at Codehaus. However, that plugin focuses on using the Tomcat manager application to manage web application as wars.</p>
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